Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
| Women's 4 x 5 kilometre relay at the XXI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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 Pictogram for cross country | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Whistler Olympic Park | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 25 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 64 (16 teams) from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 55:19.5 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Distance | ||
| 10 km | women | |
| 15 km | men | women |
| 30 km | men | women |
| 50 km | men | |
| 4 × 5 km relay | women | |
| 4 × 10 km relay | men | |
| Sprint | ||
| Individual | men | women |
| Team | men | women |
The women's 4 x 5 kilometre relay
Each team used four skiers who each compete over two separate 2.5 km circuits with classical using the red circuit while freestyle using the blue circuit. The first two raced in the classical technique, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle technique.
Results
The following are the results of the event.[7]
Sweden's Olsson had the fastest first leg with Norway and Germany, who were using the same foursome in the starting order shown that won them silver at last year's world championships, rounding out the top three. Kowalczyk had the fastest second leg and in the classical technique, moved Poland (who would finish sixth) into the lead after the second exchange with Italy (who would finish fourth) and Norway rounding out the top three. Kalla of Sweden would have the fastest third leg and in the freestyle technique to propel her country from eighth to fifth. The top three after the third exchange was Norway, Italy, and tied for third with Germany and defending world champion Finland, who was using the same foursome in their same starting order. Norway's Bjørgen had the final anchor leg to give her team their first Olympic gold medal in this event since the 1984 Winter Olympics. Defending Olympic champion Russia, with Medvedeva (formerly Medvedeva-Abruzova) being the only returning member, finished a disappointing eighth. Meanwhile, the Swedes, winners of the last World Cup event, finished fifth with Kalla being the only returnee of the foursome that won the previous November.[8][9]
| Rank | Bib | Country | Time | Deficit |
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4 |  NorwayVibeke Skofterud Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen |
55:19.5 14:49.9 14:46.5 12:53.2 12:49.9 |
0.0 |
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2 |  Miriam Gössner Claudia Nystad |
55:44.1 14:53.7 15:00.6 12:52.0 12:57.8 |
+24.6 |
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1 |  |
55:49.9 15:32.4 14:35.7 12:38.2 13:03.6 |
+30.4 |
| 4 | 5 |  ItalyArianna Follis Marianna Longa Silvia Rupil Sabina Valbusa |
56:04.9 14:58.6 14:29.4 13:01.8 13:35.1 |
+45.4 |
| 5 | 3 |  |
56:18.9 14:47.1 15:35.6 12:25.0 13:31.2 |
+59.4 |
| 6 | 9 |  Celia Bourgeois Cécile Storti |
56:30.6 15:13.3 14:38.8 12:59.9 13:38.6 |
+1:11.1 |
| 7 | 8 |  Yevgeniya Medvedeva Natalya Korostelyova |
57:00.9 15:15.2 15:19.0 13:01.1 13:25.6 |
+1:41.4 |
| 8 | 7 |  JapanMadoka Natsumi Masako Ishida Nobuko Fukuda Michiko Kashiwabara |
57:40.4 15:03.0 14:50.4 13:34.5 14:12.5 |
+2:20.9 |
| 9 | 11 |  KazakhstanElena Kolomina Oxana Yatskaya Tatyana Roshchina Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina |
58:23.3 15:29.1 15:25.7 13:47.7 13:40.8 |
+3:03.8 |
| 10 | 10 |  |
58:28.4 15:36.5 15:29.2 13:22.1 14:00.6 |
+3:08.9 |
| 11 | 14 |  Caitlin Compton |
58:57.5 14:57.5 16:12.8 13:41.6 14:05.6 |
+3:38.0 |
| 12 | 13 |  |
59:11.2 15:15.0 15:28.9 13:34.3 14:53.0 |
+3:51.7 |
| 13 | 12 |  UkraineTetyana Zavalíy Kateryna Grygorenko Maryna Antsybor Valentyna Shevchenko |
59:25.7 15:38.1 16:16.7 13:34.2 13:56.7 |
+4:06.2 |
| 14 | 16 |  SloveniaAnja Eržen Katja Višnar Vesna Fabjan Barbara Jezeršek |
59:47.5 16:00.8 16:32.3 13:25.0 13:49.4 |
+4:28.0 |
| 15 | 15 |  CanadaDaria Gaiazova Perianne Jones Chandra Crawford Madeleine Williams |
1:00:05.0 15:35.8 16:14.7 14:17.7 13:56.8 |
+4:45.5 |
| DSQ | 6 |  |
56:29.4 15:25.3 14:00.3 13:38.4 13:25.4 |
+1:09.9 |
See also
References
- ^ 2010 Winter Olympics cross-country skiing schedule. Archived 2010-08-31 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
- ^ 2006 Winter Olympics women's 4 x 5 km relay results. - accessed 3 November 2009.
- ^ "FIS Doping Panel delivers two decisions". - FIS 23 December 2009 article accessed 25 December 2009.
- ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 women's 4 x 5 km relay results. Archived 2009-05-02 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 3 November 2009.
- ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 women's 4 x 5 km relay results. Archived 2007-03-03 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 22 November 2009.
- ^ FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup 22 November 2009 women's 4 x 5 km relay results. Archived 2009-11-24 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 22 November 2009.
- ^ 2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' 4x5 km Relay Classic/Free Archived 2010-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, from http://www.fis-ski.com; retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 women's 4 x 5 km relay. Archived 2010-03-31 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 26 November 2010.
- ^ Wallenchinsky, David and Jaime Loucky. (2009) "Cross-Country (Nordic) Skiing, Women: 4 x 5-Kilometer Relay". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 252-3.
